Cardinals coach not crazy about kickoff time vs. Panthers, but understands why

Arizona Cardinals head coach Bruce Arians says he isn’t thrilled his team has to deal with a 1 p.m. kickoff in Charlotte – 10 a.m. in Arizona – but that he understands why. Norm HallGetty Images

Arizona Cardinals head coach Bruce Arians says he isn’t thrilled his team has to deal with a 1 p.m. kickoff in Charlotte – 10 a.m. in Arizona – but that he understands why. Norm HallGetty Images

Carolina Panthers coach Ron Rivera didn’t like that his defending NFC-champion team had to open the season on the road at Denver.

But the NFL schedule-makers didn’t do Arizona any favors this week.

Cardinals coach Bruce Arians wasn’t thrilled when the league moved Sunday’s Arizona-Carolina game – a rematch of last season’s NFC Championship Game – from 4:25 p.m. to 1 p.m.

“We’ve kind of gotten used to it,” Arians said Wednesday during a conference call with Charlotte reporters. “This is probably the sixth or seventh time we played 10 o’clock in the morning our time on the East Coast.”

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